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Show Earth Given Great Age ! Prof. Henry Russell of Princeton university conjectures that the earth is 8,000,000,000 years old, basing his theory on a computation of the time It took the Colorado river to carve out the Grand canyon. Also he cites as a gauge the time it takes uranium to decompose. It takes a speck of uranium ura-nium 560,000 years to decompose, and by studying the lead beds of the world, which are all that is left when uranium has disappeared, he arrives at his conclusion on the earth's age. |